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24 May 2016
London, Firmdale Covent Garden Hotel, 10 Monmouth Street
On Tuesday 24 May 2016, Reply hosts an Executive Meeting, dedicated to Blockchain – Bitcoin in a clear framework of business innovation. The event takes place at Firmdale Covent Garden Hotel, London from 8.30 am to 12.30 pm.
Investments in the Fintech sector are increasingly focused on ideas based on Blockchain. Forty-two global banks have joined the R3 initiative designed to define a de facto standard concerning the use of Blockchain within an inter-banking context. Five of the UK’s biggest fund houses are looking into several applications for the technology, including trading illiquid securities in order to speed up the movement of ownership of illiquid securities from one asset manager to another and reduce substantially costs.
Indeed, interest in Blockchain is exploding across industries beyond financial services. Verizon and Samsung ventures invested in Filament, a startup enabling deployment of scalable and interoperable networks. Other IoT applications are gathering pace, such as Slock.IT, building on Ethereum to make smart contracts act on physical objects; and IBM and Microsoft have also released cloud-based Blockchain as a Service. Further Blockchain trials are reportedly emerging in the retail industry: specifically, we highlight the efforts of BlockVerify in dealing with counterfeiting of products such as drugs, luxury goods and electronics. As regards to the UK market, Electron showed potential applications for distributed ledgers in the retail energy sector.
Reply has long been particularly active on this topic. Reply has created a group which is focused on the observation and study of the impact of Blockchain on Financial Institutions and other industries, has created a significant team of analysts and consultants specialised on this subject, has experienced the related software technologies and has established a highly interactive dialogue with some important players. Today Reply offers eight working Blockchain accelerators able to face challenging business scenarios in different industry sectors, particularly in areas relating to Payments, Insurance policy, Internet of Things, Property, Ticketing and Coupons, Voting and Software Defined Network security.
8.30 - 9.00 amRegistration and Breakfast
9.00 - 9.15 amWelcome and Reply Introduction
9.15 - 9.45 amBlockchain Technology, what are we talking about?
9.45 - 10.15 amBlockchain Technology applications for Banking and Insurance
10.15 - 10.30 amNetworking and Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.00 amBlockchain Technology applications for Telcos
11.00 - 11.30 amBlockchain Technology applications for Retailers
11.30 - 12.00 amReply Blockchain accelerators
12.00 - 12.30 pmNetworking and Light Lunch
At the end of the meeting you will receive the booklet with "The market analysis with the mapping of the major initiatives Blockchain-Bitcoin within Financial Institutions, Telcos, Retails and the startups more attractive on the international sphere".
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Participation to this event is by invitation only.